A simple one for me. The ability to click on a context menu item and have the menu stay open afterwards. RISC OS mice had three buttons, and one of them let you do just that.
Enabling interlacing is a pain in VLC because of this.
Right click->Video->Deinterlace->On->Left click Right click->Video->Deinterlace mode->Yadif (2x)->Left click
Then if you want post processing, that's another right-click/navigate/navigate/left click.
And yet, somehow, we all knew exactly what he meant.
If you want to be really picky, how else would one define "closeness" except as 1/distance? Oh look, all the math works out perfectly - twice as close is half as distant. Problem solved.
The official original versions as put on the re-release of the SE DVDs as bonus features (known as the GOUT, for George's Original Unaltered Trilogy) came from the Laserdisc masters. They're poor quality by today's standards, but better than any Laserdisc rip.
TechCrunch reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take two months off from Facebook for paternity leave. Why?
I'll take a wild stab-in-the-dark and guess that it's to help look after his kid. But actually, the answer is (Zuckerberg's posts - his choice - notwithstanding) "none of your business."
No word on why the child will only get 50% of that time
Yeesh. What makes you think you're owed any "word" on this?
Yes, those are both very good examples of reboots that are far worse than the originals. Others include the "new" Star Trek and those horrible Mission Impossible movies.
Huh. And there was me thinking the opposite. I guess one of us must be objectively wrong.
Just look at the prizes for Investigative Reporting - seven years into Obama's term and not a single Pulitzer has been awarded for investigating corruption and criminal behavior in his administration. [pulitzer.org] Not one.
How do you define "in his (Obama's) administration?" And versus how many during the Bush administration? I'm not suggesting their weren't any; I just don't know the numbers. I assume you do, since your statement implies, at the very least, that the answer is "more than one," and presumably also that the number is high enough to be statistically significant when it comes to exposing the bias you propose exists (and which, let me clear, I have no reason to actively doubt).
You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems
I'm pleased to see others making this point, but personally I've never had any leap second problems, so I don't know who you're talking to, Mr Click-bait Headline.
Huh. That explains a lot, because I really liked (the movies based on) his other books. I owe Mr Clancy a posthumous apology for assuming it was him who wrote the execrable chapter where the heavily-muscled assassin goes for a work-out at the gym and two other heavily muscled men admire him and compliment his physique. Or the subplot where the son of one of the lead characters is hinted to be involved to be in a nefarious plot, a thread which goes nowhere, then overcomes his abandonment issues by discovering his love of Frisbee(tm).
TL:DR; the book sucked, and I'm still bitter about the hours I wasted reading it.
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Megadeth
I probably imagined that a bit camper than it actually is.
One slight difference - the fact that those body scanners are crap didn't contribute to anyone's death.
A simple one for me. The ability to click on a context menu item and have the menu stay open afterwards. RISC OS mice had three buttons, and one of them let you do just that.
Enabling interlacing is a pain in VLC because of this.
Right click->Video->Deinterlace->On->Left click
Right click->Video->Deinterlace mode->Yadif (2x)->Left click
Then if you want post processing, that's another right-click/navigate/navigate/left click.
and declared a state of emergency, which can last as long as one month.
What happens after one month, then, if the situation hasn't changed? State of Emergency II: Electric Boogaloo?
The torrent will be encrypted with TrueCrypt, so your government cannot access it.
Great. How are the downloaders supposed to access it?
And yet, somehow, we all knew exactly what he meant.
If you want to be really picky, how else would one define "closeness" except as 1/distance? Oh look, all the math works out perfectly - twice as close is half as distant. Problem solved.
I don't know which disks you're watching, but the GOUT is definitely widescreen. It's not anamorphic, though (neither were the laserdiscs).
The Force did it.
Whenever you notice something like that, the Force did it.
The official original versions as put on the re-release of the SE DVDs as bonus features (known as the GOUT, for George's Original Unaltered Trilogy) came from the Laserdisc masters. They're poor quality by today's standards, but better than any Laserdisc rip.
So anyone who actually subjectively enjoys it is...?
All I would do is muck everything up.
Interesting avoidance of past tense, there.
Yeah, what is or could go wrong with that?
You tell us. Or maybe you don't actually know the answer, and just want to imply that you do.
TechCrunch reports that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take two months off from Facebook for paternity leave. Why?
I'll take a wild stab-in-the-dark and guess that it's to help look after his kid. But actually, the answer is (Zuckerberg's posts - his choice - notwithstanding) "none of your business."
No word on why the child will only get 50% of that time
Yeesh. What makes you think you're owed any "word" on this?
Well, that and the skin-tight uniforms on Mimi Rogers and Heather Graham.
Booooobs... in... spaaaaaaace.
Yes, those are both very good examples of reboots that are far worse than the originals. Others include the "new" Star Trek and those horrible Mission Impossible movies.
Huh. And there was me thinking the opposite. I guess one of us must be objectively wrong.
Just look at the prizes for Investigative Reporting - seven years into Obama's term and not a single Pulitzer has been awarded for investigating corruption and criminal behavior in his administration. [pulitzer.org] Not one.
How do you define "in his (Obama's) administration?" And versus how many during the Bush administration? I'm not suggesting their weren't any; I just don't know the numbers. I assume you do, since your statement implies, at the very least, that the answer is "more than one," and presumably also that the number is high enough to be statistically significant when it comes to exposing the bias you propose exists (and which, let me clear, I have no reason to actively doubt).
verb
past tense: roiled; past participle: roiled
1.
make (a liquid) turbid or muddy by disturbing the sediment.
"winds roil these waters"
As I said, something cannot be roiled in something. It's just not that kind of verb.
Oh, of course. Stoning and slaying are just metaphors for... uh...
You can look forward to it. No-one said anything about looking back.
(black humour aside, I hope you get to do both!)
Nope, that's an ad hominem.
These planets appear to have taken the form of gigantic squares!
You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems
I'm pleased to see others making this point, but personally I've never had any leap second problems, so I don't know who you're talking to, Mr Click-bait Headline.
Huh. That explains a lot, because I really liked (the movies based on) his other books. I owe Mr Clancy a posthumous apology for assuming it was him who wrote the execrable chapter where the heavily-muscled assassin goes for a work-out at the gym and two other heavily muscled men admire him and compliment his physique. Or the subplot where the son of one of the lead characters is hinted to be involved to be in a nefarious plot, a thread which goes nowhere, then overcomes his abandonment issues by discovering his love of Frisbee(tm).
TL:DR; the book sucked, and I'm still bitter about the hours I wasted reading it.
the friendly sport of curling suddenly has become roiled in controversy over — what else? — the brooms
I think you meant "embroiled." I don't think you can be "roiled" in something.
Anti-gravity is more promising.
Yes, all that progress they've been making recently in anti-gravity research is bound to start paying off any day.
Oh, wait, no, it's all just charlatans and wackos.